LOS ANGELES — Angela Lansbury, a Tony Award-winning actress who conquered Broadway in the glamorous roles movie studios never gave her and captured television viewers as the star of the hit series “Murder, She Wrote,” has died at her home in Los Angeles.
Lansbury, who played television’s literary sleuth Jessica Fletcher from 1984 to 1996, died Tuesday “peacefully in her sleep,” her family said in a statement obtained by NBC News. She was 96.
Her TV series “Murder, She Wrote” was a classic but light-hearted whodunit, a literate and sophisticated show complete with clues and red herrings. Like its star, the show had exceedingly good manners that made for easy family viewing.
